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UK
/pˈæɹəlˌaɪz/
]
VERB
-
make powerless and unable to function
The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation -
cause to be paralyzed and immobile
The poison paralyzed him
Fear paralyzed her
How To Use paralyse In A Sentence
- The disease paralysed his right leg, leaving him unable to walk. The Sun
- If the present rules were retained, the entry of many relatively smaller and economically weak countries would either paralyse the EU completely, or the smaller countries could outvote the larger ones.
- We are condemned to another wasted year of paralysed dithering. The Sun
- He rises from the meal with half his body paralysed. Celtic Mythology
- The condition leaves her body paralysed but her mind untouched. The Sun
- The accident left him paralysed from the waist down .
- When she was 15, her father became paralysed and was confined to a wheelchair.
- His right arm is still paralysed and when he walks it is with an awkward shuffle. The Sun
- He plays a quadriplegic who is paralysed from the neck down.
- It saved his life but left him severely disabled: unable to speak, bedridden, and paralysed for eight months before he died.
